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  • SME
    Rapporteur?s Report Session III: Exposure To Grunerite (Amosite) Asbestos: Historical Perspectives Of The Health Effects

    The development of information concerning mesothelioma in South Africa started with the 1959 finding of Dr. J. Christopher Wagner of cases of mesothelioma in persons living in the vicinity or working

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    A Review Of Subsidence Prediction Research Conducted At Sandia National Laboratories

    By H. J. Sutherland

    This paper reviews the results of the subsidence research prop ram at Sandia National Laboratories. The manuscript highlights the following: the application of empirical methods (profile functions) to

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Gold and Silver Exploration in Irian Jaya

    By D. Potter

    In 1990, Freeport Exploration began regional reconnaissance exploration programs in Irian Jaya, the easternmost province of the republic of Indonesia (Fig. 1). Irian Jaya occupies the western half of

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Sustainable mining operations with Atlas Copco’s products

    By L. Bergkvist

    "History can provide many answers with regard to what today’s mining industry looks like and how we got to where we are today. It has always been self-evident that safety has to be given the highest p

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Demonstration Of The Advanced Radio Imaging Method (Rim): Ground Truth Results For Three-Dimensional Imaging Of Coal Seams

    By L. G. Stolarczyk, Y. Luo, S. S. Peng

    Detection and assessment of severe geological anomalies ahead of a longwall face greatly benefits the mining operation. Electromagnetic-based Radio Imaging Method (RIM) is one of the most promising ge

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Port Of Miami Tunnel Tender Design And Update

    By Wern-ping (Nick) Chen

    The Florida Department of Transportation District 6 (FDOT D6) began a study in 1987 for a master plan to improve the traffic circulation and congestions between the Port of Miami (POM) and downtown Mi

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Monitoring and Evaluation of Ground Movements Above a Deep Longwall Mine in the Eastern United States

    The prediction and control of ground deformations due to underground mining are important considerations in the permitting, planning, and monitoring of coal mining operations. The prediction of mining

    Jan 7, 2020

  • SME
    Mini Symposium - Coal Pile Management Policies And Practices ? Coal Utilization - Coal Pile Management Policies And Practices - Heating Of Coal I~n Stockpiles - Introduction

    By William L. Husk

    Stockpiles have always been a necessary part of coal mining except, perhaps, when a person was mining only for the needs of his family from a seam on his home place or coal mined for the use of a smal

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    No. 7 Subway Extension Crossing Under An Existing Subway Station: Challenges And Integration Of Underpinning Into The Design Of New Tunnels

    By Aram Grigoryan

    This paper addresses the challenges of designing the underpinning of major sub-way station with 4 operating tracks. No. 7 subway extension crosses under the existing 42nd street subway station on the

  • SME
    A Visualization Technique to Predict Abnormal Channeling Phenomena in the Blast Furnace Operation Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Jia-Shyan Shiau, Chung-Ken Ho

    An uneven gas distribution through the burden layers inside a blast furnace (BF) results in abnormal gas resistance or pressure changes. Rapid variations in the abnormal gas resistance will lead to th

  • SME
    Achieving A Dry Tunnel

    By Vernon K. Garrett, Gerhard Sauer

    INTRODUCTION Generations of tunneling engineers had to fight not only against bursting rock and squeezing ground but also against the destroying power of water. Intrusion of groundwater into the

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Challenge of Minerals Exploration in the 1990s

    By Roy Woodall

    Successful mineral exploration is the lifeblood of the mining industry. Contrary to what the environmental lobby would have the world believe, the industry is replacing the metals it is extracting. Th

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Sales Comparison Valuation Of Development And Operating Stage Mineral Properties (35d10c9f-1d98-4437-8650-1c6154123f45)

    By T. R. Ellis

    Minerals Appraisers/Valuers often find great difficulty or failure in attempting to employ the Sales Comparison Approach to the Market Value Appraisal of development and operating stage mineral proper

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Members See the Latest in Technology at SME Exhibit

    By Georgene Renner, William R. Yernberg, Steve Kral

    ABB provides integrated pro-cess control, optimization and information systems, drives and power-distribution equipment as well as other services and support to the mining industry. ABB also supplies

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Estimating Process Design Gold Extraction, Leach Residence Time and Cyanide Consumption for High Cyanide-Consuming Gold Ore

    By G. Plenge, M. Brittan

    "Plant design parameters for gold extraction, leach residence time and cyanide consumption are generally determined from standard bench-scale bottle roll or agitation leach tests. The application of l

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Methods To Improve Mine Ventilation System Efficiency - Introduction - Preprint 09-070

    By C. Pritchard

    John Marks said in his acceptance of the Hartman Award in 2008 ? ?I guess that without the occasional complaint, your mine is probably over-ventilated? (Marks, 2008). Miners are seldom in this situati

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Investigation Of The Selectivity Of Ethoxylcarbonyl Thionocarbametes During The Flotation Of Copper Sulfides

    In this study, the flotation performances of ethoxycarbonyl thionocarbamate (ECTC), dialkyl thionocarbamate (DATC) and xanthate copper sulfide collectors are compared by the structure-reactivity relat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Session 5: Assessment Of Health Risk Associated With Exposure To Nonasbestiform Amphiboles Including Ingestion Studies: Rapporteus?s Report

    Paper 1: Risk of gastrointestinal cancers from inhalation and ingestion of asbestos, John F. Gamble Selikoff suggested the hypothesis that asbestos exposure is causally associated with increased

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Battery Park Truck Sewer Emergency Tunnel Project

    By Mark Rybak

    On August, 31, 2006, Tropical Storm Ernesto hit the City of Richmond, Virginia. The Battery Park area was hit particularly hard, as flooding forced an evacuation of the area. A large sinkhole collapse

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Wetting Phenomena In Oil Sand Systems And Their Impact On The Water-Based Bitumen Extraction Process

    By J. Drelich

    The highly-efficient and economically-feasible technology for bitumen recovery from US oil sands using a water extraction approach was developed at the end of the last century. This water-based bitume

    Jan 1, 2007